{"id":799,"date":"2021-01-14T11:08:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T11:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amin-ahsan-islahi.org\/works-on-islahi-copy\/"},"modified":"2022-05-01T13:02:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T13:02:44","slug":"about-amin-ahsan-islahi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/amin-ahsan-islahi.org\/about-amin-ahsan-islahi\/","title":{"rendered":"About Amin Ahsan Islahi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n \n\t\t\t\t\tAbout Amin Ahsan Islahi\t\t <\/span>\n\n\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\tAuthor : Dr Shehzad Saleem\t\t <\/span>\n <\/h1>\n<\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \t <\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t
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Islahi was born in 1904 at Bamhur, a small village in Azamgarh (U.P.), India. He received his early education in two local schools of the village. His father Hafiz Muhammad Murtada was a small landlord of the area. Islahi was admitted to Madrasah Al-Islah in 1915 in grade three. This Madrasah is located in Sara\u2019i-Mir, a small village near Bamhur. It was while addressing the convocation ceremony of the first batch of the Madrasah that he first came in the notice of the great\u00a0Hamid Uddin Farahi<\/a><\/span>, the person who was destined to become his mentor and guide. The teacher who influenced him the most during his student life at the Madrasah was Mawlana \u2018Abd al-Rahman Nigrami, himself a versatile genius. Mawlana Nigrami\u2019s attention helped him in developing a profound inclination towards Arabic literature. After graduating from the Madrasah in 1922, he entered the field of journalism. For a while, he edited a newspaper\u00a0Madinah<\/i>\u00a0at Bijnawr and also remained associated with\u00a0Sach<\/i>, a newspaper edited by Mawlana \u2018Abd al-Majid Daryabadi.<\/p>\n

It was sometime in 1925 when Farahi offered Islahi to come and study the Qur\u2019an with him. Islahi abandoned his journalistic career with no hesitation at all to benefit from this glorious opportunity. He knew he had stumbled upon the \u2018famous tide\u2019: \u2013 \u201cthe tide in the affairs of men which when taken at the flood leads on to good fortune.\u201d For the next five years till Farahi\u2019s death in 1930, he remained with him like his shadow. It was in this forming period of his life in which he developed a deep understanding of the Qur\u2019an and learnt from Farahi the principles of direct deliberation on the Book of Allah. During this time, he also taught the Qur\u2019an and Arabic literature at the Madrasah.<\/p>\n

After Farahi\u2019s death, Islahi studied Hadith from a celebrated scholar of this discipline, \u2018Abd al-Rahman Muhaddith Mubarakpuri. In 1936, he founded the Da\u2019irah-i-Hamidiyyah, a small institute to disseminate the Qur\u2019anic thought of Farahi. Under the auspices of this institute, he brought out a monthly journal,\u00a0Al-Islah<\/i>, in which he translated many portions of Farahi\u2019s treatises written in Arabic. The journal was published till 1939, after which it was discontinued.<\/p>\n

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Islahi was among the founder members of the Jama\u2018at-i-Islami, a religious party founded by the eminent Islamic scholar, Mawdudi, in 1941. During his seventeen year stay in the Jama\u2018at, he represented the intellectual element of this party and remained a member of the central governing body (Majlis-i-Shura). During this period, he did the groundwork needed to write a commentary of the Qur\u2019an \u2013 an objective which he had set before him early in life. In 1958, he abandoned the Jama\u2018at, after serious differences arose between him and Mawdudi on the nature of the constitution of the Jama\u2018at.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

After leaving the Jama\u2018at, he finally got the chance to fulfill his cherished goal of writing a commentary of the Qur\u2019an.\u00a0<\/i>He also launched a monthly journal\u00a0Mithaq<\/i>\u00a0in which portions of this commentary,\u00a0Tadabbur-i-Qur\u2019an<\/i>,\u00a0<\/i>were published. In 1961, he established a small study circle Halqa-i-Tadabbur-i-Qur\u2019an for college students to whom he taught Arabic language and literature, the Holy Qur\u2019an and the\u00a0Sahih Muslim<\/i>. In 1965, a tragic incident brought an end to the journal as well as to the study circle: Islahi\u2019s eldest son Abu Salih died in a plane crash. However, work on the commentary continued. In 1970, Islahi fell severely ill and had to discontinue all his intellectual pursuits. Subsequently, he recovered quite miraculously. In 1972, he shifted to a countryside village near Sheikhupura, where he continued to work on the commentary till 1979, when he shifted back to Lahore. It was on the 29th<\/sup>\u00a0of Ramadan 1400\/ 12th<\/sup>\u00a0August 1980 when the great day arrived \u2013 the day when a monumental effort reached its culmination: the\u00a0Tadabbur-i-Qur\u2019an<\/i>\u00a0had taken twenty-two long years to complete.<\/p>\n

In 1981, Islahi founded the Idara-i-Tadabbur-i-Qur\u2019an-u-Hadith, which remained until his death (15th December 1997) the centre of most of his intellectual activities. A quarterly journal\u00a0Tadabbur<\/i>\u00a0was taken out in 1981 as its organ. He gave weekly lectures on the text of the Qur\u2019an. Later, he took up deep study on the principles of Hadith and began teaching the\u00a0Mu\u2019atta<\/i>\u00a0of Imam Malik in weekly sittings to a close circle of students and associates. After completing the\u00a0Mu\u2019atta<\/i>, he also taught some portions of Imam Bukhari\u2019s\u00a0Sahih<\/i>. Many of these lectures have been transcribed and published in the\u00a0Tadabbur.<\/i><\/p>\n

Besides writing the\u00a0Tadabbur-i-Qur\u2019an<\/i>,\u00a0Islahi\u00a0<\/i>has authored a number of books in Urdu on various topics of Islam. They include:<\/p>\n

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  • \u2018\u062a\u0632\u0643\u064a\u0647 \u0646\u0641\u0633\u2019 (Tazkiyah-i-Nafs<\/i>: Purification of the Soul)<\/li>\n
  • \u2018\u062d\u0642\u064a\u0642\u062a \u0634\u0631\u0643 \u0648 \u062a\u0648\u062d\u064a\u062f\u2019 (Haqiqat-i-Shirk-u-Tawhid<\/i>: The Essence of Polytheism and Monotheism)<\/li>\n
  • \u2018\u062f\u0639\u0648\u062a \u062f\u064a\u0646 \u0627\u0648\u0631 \u0627\u0633 \u0643\u0627 \u0637\u0631\u064a\u0642\u0647 \u0643\u0627\u0631\u2019 (Da\u2018wat-i-Din awr us ka Tariqah-i-Kar<\/i>: Islamic Message and the Mode of its Preaching)<\/li>\n
  • \u2018\u0627\u0633\u0644\u0627\u0645\u0649 \u0642\u0627\u0646\u0648\u0646 \u0643\u0649 \u062a\u062f\u0648\u064a\u0646\u2019\u00a0(Islami Qanun ki Tadwin<\/i>: Codification of Islamic Law)<\/li>\n
  • \u2018\u0627\u0633\u0644\u0627\u0645\u0649 \u0631\u064a\u0627\u0633\u062a\u2019\u00a0<\/i>(Islami Riyasat<\/i>: The Islamic State)<\/li>\n
  • \u2018\u0627\u0633\u0644\u0627\u0645\u0649 \u0645\u0639\u0627\u0634\u0631\u0647 \u0645\u064a\u06ba \u0639\u0648\u0631\u062a \u0643\u0627 \u0645\u0642\u0627\u0645\u2019 (Islami Mu\u2018asharay mayn \u2018Awrat ka Muqam<\/i>:The Status of Women in an Islamic Society)<\/li>\n
  • \u2018\u062d\u0642\u064a\u0642\u062a \u0646\u0645\u0627\u0632\u2019 (Haqiqat-i-Namaz<\/i>: The\u00a0<\/i>Essence of the Prayer)<\/li>\n
  • \u2018\u062d\u0642\u064a\u0642\u062a \u062a\u0642\u0648\u0649\u2019\u00a0<\/i>(Haqiqat-i-Taqwah<\/i>: The Essence of Godliness)<\/li>\n
  • \u2018\u0627\u0633\u0644\u0627\u0645\u064a \u0631\u064a\u0627\u0633\u062a \u0645\u064a\u06ba \u0641\u0642\u0647\u0649 \u0627\u062e\u062a\u0644\u0627\u0641\u0627\u062a \u0643\u0627 \u062d\u0644\u2019 (Islami Riyasat mayn Fiqhi Ikhtilafat ka Hal<\/i>: Solution of Juristic Differences in an Islamic State)<\/li>\n
  • \u2018\u0645\u0628\u0627\u062f\u064a \u062a\u062f\u0628\u0631 \u0642\u0631\u0622\u0646\u2019 (Mabadi Tadabbur-i-Qur\u2019an<\/i>: Principles of Understanding the\u00a0Qur\u2019an<\/i>)<\/li>\n
  • \u2018\u0645\u0628\u0627\u062f\u064a \u062a\u062f\u0628\u0631 \u062d\u062f\u064a\u062b\u2019 (Mabadi Tadabbur-i-Hadith<\/i>:\u00a0<\/i>Principles of Understanding the\u00a0Hadith<\/i>)<\/li>\n
  • \u2018\u062a\u0646\u0642\u064a\u062f\u0627\u062a\u2019 (Tanqidat<\/i>: A collection of critical essays)<\/li>\n
  • \u2018\u062a\u0648\u0636\u064a\u062d\u0627\u062a\u2019 (Tawdihat<\/i>: A collection of general explanatory essays)<\/li>\n
  • \u2018\u0645\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0627\u062a \u0627\u0635\u0644\u0627\u062d\u064a\u2019 (Maqalat-i-Islahi<\/i>: A miscellaneous collection of articles)<\/li>\n
  • \u2018\u0642\u0631\u0622\u0646 \u0645\u064a\u06ba \u067e\u0631\u062f\u0647 \u0643\u06d2 \u0627\u062d\u0643\u0627\u0645\u0627\u062a\u2019 (Qur\u2019an mayn Parday kay Ahkamat<\/i>: The Directives of\u00a0Hijab<\/i>\u00a0in the\u00a0Qur\u2019an<\/i>)<\/li>\n
  • \u2018\u062a\u0641\u0647\u064a\u0645 \u062f\u064a\u0646\u2019 (Tafhim-i-Din<\/i>: Understanding Islam)<\/li>\n
  • \u2018\u0641\u0644\u0633\u0641\u0640\u06d2 \u0643\u06d2 \u0645\u0633\u0627\u0626\u0644 \u0642\u0631\u0622\u0646 \u0643\u0649 \u0631\u0648\u0634\u0646\u0649 \u0645\u064a\u06ba\u2019 (Falsafay kay Matha\u2019il Qur\u2019an ki Rawshani mayn<\/i>: Philosophical Issues in the Light of the\u00a0Qur\u2019an<\/i>)<\/li>\n
  • Islahi<\/i>\u00a0also translated\u00a0Farahi\u2019s<\/i>\u00a0commentary consisting of fourteen\u00a0surahs<\/i>\u00a0of the\u00a0Qur\u2019an,\u00a0<\/i>as well as his following books from Arabic:<\/li>\n
  • \u2018\u0641\u064a \u0645\u0646 \u0647\u0648 \u0627\u0644\u0630\u0628\u064a\u062d\u2019 (Fi man huwa al-Dhabih<\/i>: Which of Abraham\u2019s son was Sacrificed?)<\/li>\n
  • \u2018\u0627\u0642\u0633\u0627\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0642\u0631\u0622\u0646\u2019 (Aqsamu\u2019l-Qur\u2019an<\/i>:\u00a0<\/i>Oaths of the\u00a0Qur\u2019an<\/i>)<\/li>\n<\/ul> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \t <\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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